[ILUG] .deb dependencies

[Dave Burke]

Afternoon,

I've only recently moved to debian, so excuse me if there is an obvious
answer to this....

For my MTA, I use qmail, which i installed from src, and it works grand. I
then went and installed mutt by downloading the .deb package and using dpkg
to install it. No problems and everything works grand.....except, the next
time I go back to use dselect, it keeps trying to remove mutt as as far as
it's conecerned there is no MTA installed on my machine.

Is there anyway to tell dpkg not to keep trying to remove mutt? that i'm
aware it thinks there's no MTA on my system but that I'm ok with that ?

Cheers,
Dave